Ride or Die (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Ride or Die (Abstract painting) Oil on panel Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Panel
Ride or Die (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Ride or Die (Abstract painting) Oil on panel Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in
Oil, Panel
Ride or Die (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Ride or Die (Abstract painting) Oil on panel Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in
Oil, Panel
$416Sale Price|20% Off
CHRISTIAS DIOR WalknDior velvet logo lace up low top platform sneakers EU37.5
By Christian Dior, MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI
Located in Hong Kong, NT
CHRISTIAS DIOR WalknDior pink velvet logo lace up low top platform sneakers EU37.5 Reference: NKLL
Giambattista Valli 2011 Pink Silk Jersey Goddess Gown
By Giambattista Valli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
lilac pink brings the elegant piece to life. The cool pink reminds us of the viral lilac pink Dior blush
Christian Dior by John Galliano Strapless Old Hollywood Style Bow Dress Gown
By Valentino, John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Circa early 2000 John Galliano for the House of Dior strapless blush pink silk bias cut gown
$239
H 2.96 in W 6.5 in D 3.55 in
Bburago Jeep CJ-7 “Africatours” Rally Version, 1:24 Scale Die... - Italy 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
A vintage die-cast metal model produced by Bburago, representing a Jeep CJ-7 prepared in
Metal
$239
H 1.38 in W 3.55 in D 1.19 in
Solido Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Rally – 1:43 Scale Die-Cast Model... - Italy 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
A vintage die-cast metal model by the esteemed French manufacturer Solido, representing the Alfa
Metal
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
increase as editions sell out. Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching
Giclée
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
increase as editions sell out. Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching
Giclée
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
increase as editions sell out. Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching
Giclée
$2,486
H 1.78 in W 6.11 in D 3.94 in
Decorative Amethyst Box - Signed “Made in Italy” for Christian Dior
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Decorative Amethyst Box – Christian Dior Decorative box. Pink and black amethyst box with white
Stone, Amethyst
Vintage F/W 2003 Floral Slip Dress
By Christian Dior
Located in London, GB
John Galliano for Christian Dior Fall Winter 2003 pink floral slip dress. Features spaghetti straps
Miss Dior Vintage Oversized Optyl Collectors Item P02 Sunglasses Austria
By Christian Dior
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Mint Vintage Miss Dior OVERSIZED frame with light Pink lenses. Produced and design in 1970's. A
When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion. Vintage Dior bags, shoes, evening dresses, shirts and other garments and accessories are known today for their feminine and sophisticated sensibility.
Dior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in 1905. His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture. However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in 1928 in Paris with a friend.
This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in 1941, following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house, at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris.
Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris, for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. They needed to dream anew.
And Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. “God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “This changes everything.”
Dior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. The debut got a standing ovation.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous couture dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
On 1stDibs, find an exquisite range of vintage Christian Dior clothing, jewelry, handbags and other items.
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